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this is not from a partisan standpoint but as as an old political campaign hack, they are fundamentals to campaigning. chris christie stolmy line the whole idea is you can t outwit the mouse, how do you sit across from putin? one thing that s important we learned this from the bush white house. the idea of presenting strength and being a strong leader is really, really important for conservatives on the right he is failing to do this i don t begrudge him for getting into petty politics. apparently, petty politics is how you come up in the republican primary see donald trump the problem is, i don t know if you aregoing to out petty donald trump right? in campaign 101, the guy who is in front of you at some point, you will have to take out the guy who is in front of you
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whistle on what they were seeing was this massive surge of unaccompanied minors. in large part i think because they didn t want to admit that they had a border crisis because during the 2022 elections, of course, every time they got on the camera they said no, no, no. the border is totally secure. it turns it out that s not the case. and all of the things that they removed at the beginning of the administration, that the trump administration had put into place were actually the humane way to deal with the border and in the name of humanity, they created a absolutely atrocious situation for children and really all migrants at the border. gillian: the problem, mara, is compounded by the fact if you believe this investigation findings that senior administration officials, including susan rice, were briefed about the problem. knew about the problem. but, as the new york times says, they failed to adequately protect the children. the problem for the administration it is not that they